The Commonealth Of Independent States Economies [Paperback]

The year 2016 marks the 15th anniversary of the official inauguration of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), a free association of sovereign states comprised by Russia and 11 other republics that were formerly part of the Soviet Union (Eastern Europe - Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine; the South Caucasus - Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia plus disconnected Abkhazia and South Ossetia; and Central Asia - Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Although this loose association of states may not exist as a fixed-entity on the globe, it is believed that this bloc of countries will continue to build upon the various separate regions in the former Soviet space in the coming decade.